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Code snippet and a quote. Powered by blogger.com. Code snippet and a quote. Code snippet unrelated to quote and quote unrelated to code snippet. Code snippet [needed this for a while]:. Bin/bash function fsuffix() { local LEN=2 # ${1} full path FILE=$(basename ${1}) DIR=$(dirname ${1}) # get last file of the specified type LS=$(ls -1 "${1}"-* 2 /dev/null egrep "${1}-[0-9] $" sort -nr head -n 1) if [ -z "${LS}" ]; then FSTSUF=1 LSTSUF=0 LST=" LSTSFX OUT=" else LSTSUF=$(echo ${LS} egrep -o "[0-9]*$") FSTSU...

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Hydraulic vs bucket shim valve adjusters. The long way home. Powered by blogger.com. Originally uploaded by pjvenda. Posted by Pedro Venda. Hydraulic vs bucket shim valve adjusters. Been researching the various valvetrain designs out of a philosophical discussion on hydraulic adjusters not commonly employed in motorcycles (H-D engines are the notable exception). Fascinating! I now realise that the more common cam followers shims buckets should equally have (more or less) permanent contact between all the...

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2011/11

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The joys of hardware RAID. Powered by blogger.com. The joys of hardware RAID. After having used software RAID on Linux for longer than I'd care to admit, I decided to go business and get a proper RAID controller. I mean having a decent motherboard with a bunch of unused bandwidth (2 channel PCI-X bus), it seemed only fair to make use of it. Y N [N]: Y Deleting unit c0/u2 .Done. # tw cli /c0/u1 del Deleting /c0/u1 will cause the data on the unit to be permanently lost. Do you want to continue? A few month...

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2011/12

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Quick tips for Mac OS X. Powered by blogger.com. Quick tips for Mac OS X. Thought I should share a few tips I learnt today. All these work in multiple versions of OS X although I didn't research exactly which apart from Lion. A quick table of contents for this post is shown below:. Hide or unhide files from finder: the invisible attribute. View disk volumes on the command line: disk utility does not reveal everything. Permanently disable spotlight indexing on a specific volume. Rw-r- r- 1 pjvenda staff 8...

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2009/08

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Home network / Cisco testing lab. Powered by blogger.com. Home network / Cisco testing lab. Dog's bollox' syndrome", autistic geekiness, paranoid overkill network admin, will to learn. Call it what you like, I don't care. It all looks like this at the moment:. At the moment, the following devices compose and actively participate in this horrible wire mesh that I call "home network":. 48 10/100Mbps Ethernet port core switch;. Core/Internal router and firewall;. Wireless access point;. I also learnt that C...

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2009/11

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Night lights at the Colosseum. Powered by blogger.com. Night lights at the Colosseum. Night lights at the Colosseum. Originally uploaded by pjvenda. Taken from the hotel's balcony, while having dinner, during my honeymoon. The balcony shook as every tram or bus passed by, but the result was not bad. 30sec exposure done with an EOS 350D Sigma 18-125mm. Posted one day after I signed up for a flickr Pro account. Posted by Pedro Venda. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2011/03

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This weeks reading list. Powered by blogger.com. One of the past weekend's highlights was spotting a rare bike. Alice. Alice is a Ducati Desmosedici RR: a £40k road legal MotoGP motorcycle replica. This is a rare find, particularly due to its price, but also because of scarce availability. There's a lot special about this bike from an engineering point of view. Is the road legal Racing Replica of the MotoGP Ducati Desmosedici GPn. The term "desmosedici" is a contraption of ' desmodromic. From a rider's s...

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2010/01

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Powered by blogger.com. Weird stuff went on recently on my network;. It started last night while I was fiddling with my lab network - dark witchcraft including ospf, eigrp, nat, acls, ppp/chap, etc. I discarded it as being my laptop still fussing with its gateways and default routes. I was tired and didn't care. So I just turned things off, went to bed and forgot about it. Side note: I should post my network diagram someday, so everyone can appreciate a true overkill geek home network. Is setup globally ...

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2010/06

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Powered by blogger.com. Originally uploaded by pjvenda. The more I look at this picture the more I like it. And it's not one of those I thought: "this will make a fantastic shot" when I took it. Posted by Pedro Venda. Originally uploaded by pjvenda. Shot minutes before boarding. Posted by Pedro Venda. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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~ / pjvenda / blog: 2010/08

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Powered by blogger.com. Originally uploaded by pjvenda. The final link between drive train and rear wheel. Posted by Pedro Venda. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).